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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
call for improvement is its leading and characteristic feature 
of the day. 
At the same time, the State Agricultural Fair is still more 
comprehensive than its title indicates. It is, in reality, a re¬ 
union of Agriculture, Arts and Manufactures. So intimately 
are all the relations of the material wants of man blended with 
each other, that it is impossible to advance any department, 
without involving in the train of improvement numerous affili¬ 
ated or dependent branches. It was said in reference to a 
trans-atlantic exhibition of art and science, that “ social im¬ 
provement, national industry, and national taste, are so 
“ necessarily associated with each other, and these again with 
“the progress of good feeling and intellectual and religious 
“ knowledge, that it would be difficult to trace in all their 
“relations and ramifications, the line of demarcation between 
“ them.” So, in the same manner, we have only to inspect 
the catalogue of articles at this Agricultural Fair, to convince 
us that the taste, the feelings, and the dispositions of the 
people, though directed specially to Agricultural pursuits, 
bound over all technical limitations, and delight in all illustra¬ 
tions of Art and Science, whether springing from the fruits 
of the earth, the developments of Chemistry and Mechanics, 
the productions of the animal or vegetable kingdom, or 
manifested in the music of the Calliope, the skillful and ec¬ 
centric carving that denotes the genius of sculpture, and the 
valuable paintings that lead us to hope the artist will extend 
his pencil to the beauty of the scenery with which we are 
surrounded. It simplifies accordingly, in no small degree, the 
question of the general introduction of science into our common 
schools, to find how universally it is connected with the taste 
and associations of the people, wherever an opportunity is 
given for its development. But without wandering over a 
wide and extended series of illustrations, let us select two 
points more especially for examination on this occasion, viz. 
the relations of Chemistry and Physiology to the interests of 
the Agriculturist on his farm, and in his abode at home. 
During the last century Chemistry has unfolded the precise 
